001the pledge of allegiance followed by the uh prayer from John. Excuse me. It's been a busy day. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. God, we thank you for staying with us. We thank you for each person here and we pray that you would um just grant wisdom as we go through today's meeting and may you continue to bless everybody here and keep everybody um safe and healthy here in the village. Your name. Amen. Thank you. Ding was like a No, I was like Jesus 702. Yeah, you said both everybody like Thank you. Okay, can we have a roll call of officers, please? Moore here. Kennedy is absent, excused. Pelich, yes.
002Swack, here. Hawkins. And for the record, clerk Zelnak is here. Treasurer Judy Bur is absent, excused. Okay. Can I have a motion to approve the minutes of the May 12th meeting, please? All in support. All in support. I will make a motion to approve the May 12th, 2025 minutes for the regular meeting of the village council. Support. All in favor? I I got to the agenda approval. Please have a motion. Oh, I need to add items to that on old business and one on ordinance uh enforcement. Enforcement. President's number three. We just need to add to item one on old business is all just oh just item one add the ordinance enforcement. Okay. Yeah. So we have to add a uh agenda approval with the added item of the mess. Yeah. What's what's the addition
003for number one? So now I don't know what you were talking about but what what we have over there in your notes is on old business we want to add the new code ordinance. the code ordinance for the treasurer position for the treasur is that correct under old business part of number one it is part of number one he call it like a 1A if you wanted to only because um he's just he's going to share a piece of information and I just probably should have titled it differently but we've got late information and the agenda was printed already so um if you would just add that we're going to um we're going to have a motion on a new code ordinance amendment And did you have um what did you want to add? Did
004you have something else to add to it? No. Okay. So, I will make a motion to approve the amended agenda for June 9 regular meeting of the village council village of Leonard Council. Support. All in favor? I. Treasury report. I have a motion to approve the treasures report. I will make a motion to approve the treasures report as provided May 2025. A roll call of officers, please. Sure. Kennedy. Oh, sorry. My bad. Felich, yes. Moore, yes. Swack, yes. Hawkins, yes. Accounts. Motion to approve the accounts payable general of $11,454.82, 82 major $10,52823 local $2,950 no sense the mill and park recreation $565.75 I will make a motion to approve the accounts payable May 2025 do I need to review do I need to go over those you can say in those amounts as mentioned okay
005in those in the amounts that were mentioned I did double check them they're they are the same for both pieces of paper Another roll call of officers, please. Swack, yes. Hawkins, yes. Moore, yes. Pelich, yes. So, is there any public comment at this time? No. Okay. Let's see. Not about the Not about the baby raccoon either. That was the living under. So, we're on to new business. First on the agenda is the community community decorating request for funds from the community decorating fund has been made for flowers for the planters. This would encompass the nine planters at the mill and park and remaining planters downtown in the amount of uh $300. I have a roll call for excuse me. Okay. Can I have a motion to support that, please? Um, I will make a motion
006to approve $300 um for plants in the planters between the village downtown area, the nature park, and the mill. Have a roll call, please. Sure. Just one second. Pelich, yes. Hawkins, yes. Wack. Yes. More? Yes. Number two on the agenda is an ad hoc committee. We're looking for uh help to form a committee to do to get everything together for the paving of forestry. If anybody wants to join in with me and do this as a team. Sounds like a blast. I'm in part of that. I'll explain why. I even told Bill, you know, if I know everyone's super busy that just being because I love taking minutes that I would even just go to some of the meetings that other people on the committee can't make. We've got young families. You guys are all
007really committed that I could help at least take some of the information. I mean, we could disseminate it and anybody who wanted to be on the ad hoc could kind of like put our heads together. It's just the the numbers are mind-blowing as far as like for our community. Were you able to get a hold of Alex, too? Um, yeah. I'll I'll send him an email. Is he in or? Yeah. You know, I haven't had a chance to talk to him. He's been traveling a lot. So, um I didn't want to bother him. Got it. So, um I was thinking maybe we could just whoever was interested, pull them in. I value his opinion. So, yeah. For our upcoming project the Well, it's so confusing. It's so different. And then we've got Bill is new
008and I've never, you know, they changed the rules. Yeah, rules have changed, of course. Yeah. And so I I'll put this on now. What's happened is Don and I had talked quite a while in the past here that by the end of this year he was going to be done. He wasn't going to come back. He was going to retire. Don's going to retire. I thought he meant be figuratively December of this year. Okay. I think what he meant was the end of the budget year when we were done plowing and snow and stuff because he he has not talked to me yet, but we we had talked about it and I heard from Mike that he was uh not coming back. He was sure he was done. I he take your time. It's a
009personal decision, you know, said whatever you're going to do. I said I'm not going to answer the state. Well, just let us know ahead of time and keeps me though to watch over now and do work there as well. anything else that comes up and we don't really have a good candidate. Can we do we have to post for something like that or do we have to uh the most knowledgeable people right now is our grass cutter. Awesome. I didn't approach the subject with you. So, you want me to? No. Maybe he'll listen to me. So, so we're going to be quite busy because we're losing people right and left here. Okay, cool. So, if you know anybody would be valuable, Lori has already said she would assist with that. She's becoming my new best
010friend. So, I don't know about you guys, but don't lose her. Don't drive her away. Okay. Okay. So, so at this time, I would like to make a motion to close the regular meeting of the Leonard Village Council and open the public hearing to discuss reprogramming of reprogramming of the 2019, 2021, and 2022 community development block grant funds and and also approve the 2025 CDBG application. I have a roll call, please. Hold on. Oh, I'm sorry. Go ahead. Go ahead. You're right. To close the meeting. Yep. Close it. 709. 709. Yeah, you need a second on that before we do a roll call. I'll have a second. Second. You did that. Okay. So, the bill was the first, Jennifer was the second, and then Sorry. Roll call. Um, Swack. Yes. More. Pelich. Yes. Hawkins. Yes.
011Now you can talk. Okay. Great. Okay. So, now that our community development block grant hearing is open, um basically this is our opportunity to share with the public um what we're going to be doing with the funds. So, um block grant has metrics for what they have to meet for spending money. They have become very very tight on us use it or lose it. And we're at a point now that we are supposed to have all of our money spent within 12 months. we have money hanging out there from 2019, 2021, and 2022. Basically, it can't be there anymore. So, as opposed to them quote pulling it back, what we're going to do is we're going to let the public know that there are ways that the funds can be used that actually will still
012help the public. So, what we're going to do is ask that um the money be reprogrammed. And reprogramming means we take it out of one fund, which was remove architectural barriers, um, like truncated domes and things like that that are in sidewalks, and we move it into another fund. And the fund is going to be rehabilitation of single unit residential. And basically what that means is money goes into the Oakland County Home Improvement Fund, which is terrific because of all the rules and regulations we have around spending block grant money, I we have a $7,000 budget. I can't combine money. Sometimes I can split it and spend part of it, but if I have money left over, it creates all kinds of complications. They want me to use a yearly budget in one go or
013maybe two goes. And the money um if I send it to Oakland County home improvement, they can take that and they can assist low-income homeowners. Not only can they assist them with low interest loans, but people who are maybe in forbearance, so they're having a difficult time, they can give them debt relief. And we have been able to do that once before where I was able to transfer money from that and it went to a local homeowner and they were able to pay off some of the debt they had so they could get another project done at really low income like rates. So, what we're going to do is if the public is agreeable to this because it's a use it or lose it, that's what we want to do with it. So, that actually
014goes Does it go back to Oakland County to be used or does it technically stay? It just goes to a different account that still Leonard and maybe Addison can use. We no longer administrate it is what will happen. So these funds um they so it's it's regulated by HUD and HUD has really really um stern standards that we have to adhere to and they have got to get it off the books like yesterday. So it will now go into their fund which it kind of can be pulled because that's been the problem. We're not allowed to pull. So I have a homeowner that needs $10,000. Well, they need to come up with the rest and so this way it probably would just do so much more good. Okay. So, um, what I would be looking
015for when we close this public hearing and we go back to our regular hearing and we're looking for a motion, we'll be looking for two of them. Not only for the one to move the 2019, 2021, and 2022 money over to that program, but also the 2025 application that we just did, that needs to go, too, because we still have other money on the books. And they're going to let us keep one slot of money, which is like $7,000. the rest of it has to go. So why wouldn't the old stuff go? Why would the 2025 have to go? Um, you know, it just makes it easier because reprogramming programming is like literally when I do a reprogramming the application is about 80 pages. Okay. So, it's it's like a massive amount of work and
016so it's just easier this way if we just jump they let me keep a year of older money that we could use maybe this winter for somebody the new application just is done and then it saves like a lot of paperwork on everybody's end and then with them too because every time somebody reprograms it gets under a microscope with HUD and so just everybody's life is easier. It's a bummer to lose the money but at the same time at least it goes to somebody. I will say that in working with the home improvement program a couple years ago when we did this for a local homeowner, they really try to find somebody like in Leonard and then once it gets to that point that they can't find anybody and you know then they start looking
017kind of outward. Okay. So they actually do start target us. They really target us for the money that given back. That was the deal before why it was like such an easy transition is because we have somebody locally here that that needs that money right now, right? And so there was no reason like not to do it. Um so does the public have any questions for me on block grant and how we would reprogram and do the application for the 2025 funds. Okay. Well then it's up to you. Bill is there's no more uh things from the audience. Um, at this time I would like to make a motion to close the public hearing to discuss community development block grant funds and reopen the regular meeting of the Leonard Village Council. I will second that
018motion. I need a roll call vote on that. 717. Okay. Um, Moore, yes. Yes. Pelich, yes. Hawkins. Okay, we need now we need to approve what we just talked about. We I need to get a motion on the reprogramming of the 2019 funds. Let me just make sure you've got for 2019. You've got 7,000 for 2021 and then 2022 is 3500. Correct. Right. We can't roll them into one number because No, no, I was actually going to do them separate. I just I only circled them cuz I'm not doing that much math. I know. I'm not doing all that math. Okay. Yeah. And then do you want a separate motion for this 2025? Correct. Correct. So, if you could give me if you could do two motions, that would be exactly what they're asking. Start
019with the re we'll start with the I will make a motion to reprogram the 2019 U CDBG funds in the amount of 361081 along with the funds from 2021 in the amount of $7,000 the funds from 2022 for $3500 and reprogram those to Oakland County. Um, you could just say home improvement program isn't is good enough to the home improvement program. Okay. Program. Yeah, that's number five. So, get a roll call vote, please. So, that was Swack and Hawkins. Yes. Yes. Hawkins. Yes. Swack. Yes. Elch. Yes. More. Yes. And then we and I I'll give you a minute here. 2025 $7,000 is going to that exact same Oakland County home improvement program. Okay, I'll give you a minute. Got it. Go ahead. I will make a motion to uh reprogram the 2025 Oh, actually, we're
020approving. Okay. Approve the 2025 CDBG application for $7,000 to the Oakland County Home Improvement Program. Is it okay if I do a roll call on that? You probably have to. Yeah. Okay. Um, Hawkins, yes. Swag, yes. Moore, yes. Pelich, yes. Okay, that moves us to agenda item number six. We're just moving right along. Here, take mine. You want that? And uh number six, we're going to adopt the code amendment ordinance number 1.015, the treasurer appointment. What we're doing is just doing the treasure. I know we discussed combining the two. It's the lawyer did not think that that was a good idea. He said we could do it later by resolution if we had to. If we get somebody that will accept both positions to to do both, then we'll do it by resolution at that
021point. positions what admin administrator admin and building department she was doing involve basically yeah right that is that is what this amendment is about to amend our ordinance to allow us to appoint y a treasurer and this was to allow us to point appoint a treasurer because that person can now live outside of the village yes because we have limited people that will take a village treasurer position so we need to look outside of the village and be flexible Okay. All right. Do you need um need a motion to adopt this ordinance um chapter 2 of the village code of ordinances? I will make a motion to approve. I think we need to adopt to adopt um ordinance uh an ordinance to amend the code of ordinances. Um I will make a motion to adopt
022ordinance number 1.015 specifically chapter 2 regarding the treasurer position. have a roll call vote, please. A second. Sure, I can help that. It's going to roll call vote for you. Now, if that thing starts to make names, it's out. Pelich, yes. Moore, yes. Hawkins, yes. Swag, yes. Get sunburned, Bill. That's funny. You know, I like to keep things humorous if I can. I have to. Absolutely have to. Okay. On to number seven. This I I spoke about this coming about two meetings ago. I spoke about this new agreement coming, the intergovernmental agreement for not smart. Number seven has to do with that. the the the new agreement, excuse me, itself that we're going we're going to approve tonight has not changed. The major change you'll see in the second Apple we just got uh today.
023So, say I see a lot of breakouts and stuff like that, but there's two there's uh two motions here. one is is going to approve the international the intergovernmental agreement and I'd like to get a motion to do that. Let's get through this one first. It's a lot of paperwork, but it really doesn't say much different than what we already had. They're trying to streamline and start streamlining their paperwork. Are they Is that all of you said there's two motions? Is it all regarding this one? No. Okay. I don't think I gave you the one that you emailed me Sunday night. It's It's not in there. But essentially, I think what from what Bill told me was because you talked to the director this morning, right? about it is we adopt this every year, the
024intergovernmental agreement, but um they're having some struggles getting funding from communities and so what they're trying to do is just streamline the way things are done. They want to be like a flow through situation. So basically the money now is going coming from our taxes to smart from smart to not and they want us to basically say we agree that yes to the flow through funding. That's basically what this agreement is, but we're going to make a motion for that. The second one is basically saying that um you know uh do you want to take it from here as far as what that we're going to be into ongoing? It it uh what we have to do is agree to pay our money or or find any funding. We still go through uh smart because
025it's it's mandated by the state. Got it. They own that. The the big difference becomes in how smart and not interact. So not can now go get the funds on their own because they have to go ask. We have seven different communities. We're looking at adding two more now. And so that made seven different agreements with smart. So, what we're going to do tonight is roll that all into one agreement. We're going to sign on that. Yes, we agree to this and we won't have to go through this again. That we'll still approve it every year or no? It's it's going to it's continuous every year. All right. And unless there change comes up in the future. And as far as funds go, we would still be sending amount of money and it's going the
026same way. We're going that's what we're asking to do that we go 100% of our community funding or anything we do to go to smart. So they that part doesn't really change then. No, it doesn't change. It's more of a change on their side. No, it's only between not and smarts to streamline the future because it it takes they're two and a half years behind on getting funds for not. Awesome. And this that's all part of this. Yeah. Well, it's a se separate piece of paper. I the separate pe piece of paper isn't the one for us to adopt the intergovernmental agreement is in front of you right now. It's all here. Yeah. So that would be the the one motion. The other one is just basically saying that we're going to do it until
027we change our mind. Once every community does what we're going to do in the second half of this and we agree to do that, once the seven communities put that together, now it's going to go in into a a an agreement for for this point in time going forward for so it's easier. It's one agreement to cover all of us rather than seven different ones. that has already had two more because it's likely that no is going to get two more municipalities here. Well, hopefully we can just do an amendment to it instead of redoing everything. So, okay. What would be better? It'll be easier for everybody. I don't think we'll have to do anything. Do you need two separate It's a It's a document I have to sign and send back and it's about
028money going to Smart, right? But you can do this one first right here. Yeah. enter into it. Yes, we're going to do that first. We're going to do number seven first. The intergovernmental agreement. We're going to approve that. If I can get a motion to approve that. I will make a motion to approve the intergovernmental contracted services agreement between the townships of Orian, Oxford, Addison, and Nota. Can I get a roll call vote, please? Sure. Swag. Yes. Moore. Yes. Yes. Hawkins. Yes. Now I see why there's all Okay. Now the the strikethroughs make sense. What is the second motion? And second one. Do you want to actually put that one together? You can make that motion. You can make that motion. Yeah. I'll make this. Can I get a motion to authorize a continuing annual
029flow of funding from Smart to Nota for transportation services? I support. Okay. Roll, please. One second. You're you're quick and I'm slow. So, I think I have to work on shortorthhand or something here. Maybe she won't be my new best friend. That's right. I I need to meet AI to help me here. Okay. So, that's for sure. Okay. I'm ready for that roll call now. Um, Pelich, yes. Hawkins, Swack, yes. More. Yes. Okay, that moves us along to Did we just do this? We did not. So, we didn't approve the ordinance. So, um, we just did that. I thought I did that one. Yeah, we took it out. Oh. Oh, it got out of order. Is that what happened? Okay, that's okay. If it if it got out of order somehow. It got out of
030order when we have it. Well, it's on here already at here. We got Oh, did sometimes. Okay. So, the only thing that you if you want to you can talk about the letter from the lawyer, but we kind of touched on it briefly. You want to say more on that right now? Not right now. I don't uh then we're good to go because we know what we can do now when we when it comes to that if we make a resolution at the time. 100% I'm good with that. All right, let's keep going. Let's keep going. So, we can actually skip number one of old business. We're going to skip number one of old business because we already because we already did it as number six of business on the park property purchase. I finally
031got all the deeds we needed. Awesome. After four or five calls down to Oakland County and we can't find it and okay, keep looking. I was say I could have helped you on that. So, it took a while, but last so last week the survey got done for this park purchase. So I I always say this and and then I kick myself because it doesn't go away. I say I I expect it to move past the conclusion now because I I did all the leg work for them anyway. I don't know why we're paying because they kept calling me and I kept finding them send them stuff. Got it. So they should have paid. So the survey is done. The what's left to do? The survey is done. What's left is they got to put
032all the the u legal description of each property together plus the deeds. Get it back to us. I need to get it approved. I need to send everything down. I don't need to get that approved. We've already approved the purchasing part. We'll just do that. But now you need the deeds notorized. And yeah, you can do that. I got a little ahead of myself. I was talking about the assessor's office. Well, I was going to say you can do that down at Yeah. But then I send everything to John. Okay. All that. And then he puts he drafts the final proposal to buy the property. Got it. Based on those they'll say he'll send that to us. Okay. We'll approve that final draft and then he will he will make the the actual proposal and
033send it out to us to sign so we can get it done. So he needed all the proper descriptions before he could do everything done in me in his lab so he can put it all together in a proposal. Makes sense to me. Okay, that's where we're at. So hopefully yeah this year we'll get it done so that we can I'll just tell them no anyway after all this I'll say I don't think so. Yeah, you'll have more raccoons. I'm just saying I will anyway. They don't take care of you know the kind of the DPWA update. I I gave you that bad news there. So we're going to be looking for another guy to run the DPW or at the discretion of the council where we move up the one that's cutting our lawn
034now because he does know how to run the tractor truck and stuff. Well, anything that we can get down to teach them. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I mean, now's the time to kind of get that overlap. Want to There's the question. Yeah. Oh, the mowing guy. Yeah, the mowing guy. Now's the time to ask the questions. The mowing guy. The mowing guy. He should. He should. He should. I can't speak to that. I have a question. Whose tractors are at the building right now? I'll get to it. Oh, is it on here? Yeah. Oh, okay. Okay, cool. So, I have an F freedom of information request. Do you have anything for DPW? I just It was about Don is retiring. Effectively, retired, but he has not turned his phone or keys into me yet. He hasn't
035talked to me actually talked to me yet. So, it's uh I've heard that before from him, too. So, yeah. But so it it's kind of well but he was going to go at like I said the end of the year and I moved it out to December. I was say oh he's going to stay December. We got we have time but you know seems like he went at the end of the uh budget year. Okay. So, so the freedom of information request a title corporation for the 405 building has requested the tax records and dangerous building hearings from us which we submitted to them, right? A title company did. So, there's an offer. Well, that would be good news, right? No. As long as they do what they're supposed to do. If they do what
036they're supposed to want, that way we don't have to do it. Yeah. So, we've already gone through black grant reports. I further on that. What what we've done though here recently under ordinance enforcement, we served uh a resident at 115 West Elmwood for the work that he did in his yard and the going past his property lines and into the uh roadway right ofway and and excavated right up to the edge of the road. So, requesting that he put that back in the condition it was in at his expense, not ours. If we have to go in and do it, we're going to charge him for everything we can cuz I'll have to survey. I have to know where his lot line is. Roadway is uh 66t wide and he's 11 foot from the center
037line. So, I think he's too close to the road. Wow. I didn't realize it was that wide at that point. 66 from the center line. 33 are 33%. Wow. Holy smokes. and he he has far exceeded his property lines. We sent him we sent him the aerial views with the property lines on him to his home. We've sent him all that. We've sent him uh him every ordinance right now that he he has uh violated. Okay. We've asked him to come in within 10 days and talk to us and submit a site plan to the building commission so that we he can get it done right. We're giving him a way out. So if he'll do all the work, then we're not going to find him or anything. Then we just put it back in
038order and move this inside his property. So, but he's also we can't we're under the assumption it's a dirt track bike track thing, but we can't say that until he says that. Gota tonight. We But we do have But if if he says that, he's also in violation of another ordinance he can't do. Did you hear actual like like a motorcycle engine? Okay. Because I didn't know if it was BMX bike or if it was like something that was motorized because I asked around. Nobody had heard anything because that's a whole different ordinance violation if it's actually motorized. See it, but I would say it's motorized. We send it now through the post office Friday, but certified mail. That's what I was going to give you. Oh, okay. That's your tracking code. So, we'll know
039when he receives it and the countdown will start. We'll know exactly when he receives it. If he doesn't uh pick it up, they'll hold it at the post office. 5 days to go and get it. Okay, I see Brandy is here this evening. So, we're going to get a summer festival committee report from Brandy. Nice to see you. How are you? Good. Should I Should I stand or are we okay? Wherever you're comfortable, whatever works for you. If you're comfortable in those steel chairs, go ahead. I'm Brandy and just for you that don't know, uh the summer festival committee president and Why don't you introduce yourself? Licia Gravity, the treasurer. Um, so we did want to do an official announcement today. Uh, this is our second meeting. We did come at the end of the
040closing of 2023 to announce to the public that we would probably have 2024 last year be the last festival uh due to difficulty with funding and um volunteers and board members. So, we tried really hard to save it last year. We were able to raise money. We were not able to get new members. Um, and we were really hopeful cuz we had an outpour of volunteers last year, but they were only doing it um to help us get through what they thought would be already a final year. And we actually have half of the members this year that we had last um because we were able to raise the money but not the people. We actually still were not going to have this year but the fire department as you know or many of you
041know it's their 75th anniversary year and they really wanted to celebrate it in this way. So they have stepped up to help us make this last year happen. Unfortunately, but very factually, nobody else in the community is. It is not sustainable and even what the fire department is doing is not something they're willing to do again after this year. So, with that said, we're just trying to give the best festival we can in our final year. We're happy to be able to report that it's happening at all because it almost did not happen for this final year. Um, but it is uh irrevocably going to be the last festival. Um, so we do have a meeting next week, Monday, if anybody wants to join. Uh, we we encourage somebody to join. We're hoping a few
042volunteers will step up. Um, what we have going on at 6 6:30 here. 6:30 enrollment. Yes. A week from today. Yeah. And with that, um, Alicia just going to go over a few highlights, um, of some of the the financial things we're going to hand over to you guys for some final payments that are due on the day of festival. So, I do have our 2025 budget so far, what we have here. So, let's out. Thank you. And we did send a few emails with a few invoices. Um, I don't know if you guys were able to see your resp. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. So, uh, the day of the festival, we do have to make a payment to Chamberlain Pony Rides, a Romeo party rental, the 3/4er time band, and then the DJ
043or, you know, the MC, whatever you call them. Um, for a total of 5,379 issued the day of the festival. Um, so we would actually like the village to issue, we're going to village, and then the village would write the check to them the day of. So that way it'll clear. Are they Are they marked as to which ones are needed or are they just what you um It's actually You sent an email. You invoiced us. Yeah. Yeah. So you've got it so she knows what's going on. Okay. Or not. No. So we we did just go over everything before tonight and we decided Wayne should probably the DJ should be added to that. So, I did just send um you might not have seen the final that in addition to for that final total
044of 5,379 to which we'll issue that check to you this evening. Um but yes, it is in the email so you know who each check should be written out to and for what the value is. And did they just give them back to you or to one of you guys? Yes. That we've got them. Okay. Thanks for being so proactive on getting this to us so early. It really we've never gotten it so early before. It's so nice to Well, it wouldn't have Things wouldn't have cleared either had they not been early. Well, you know, and we trust them. The check cleared. We were just hoping that because we had it figured out with only four of us this year, we really said we have to know what's going on early. It's too stressful. It
045this month from basically right now until the festival, we're just over a month and we have a holiday week in there. So, it really is only four active weeks. We don't usually count the holiday week. Um, and it's it's on four people. So, we said it all has to be done. So, we can just it so we can just focus on the physical act of doing now. We really don't want to be um worried about each, you know, checks and things like that and trying to do everything else, right? So, um, we really made a conscious choice. Is there anything else that you could get out of the way? I mean, is there anything else that can get out of the way or is it just really the money stuff? Everything else is daytoday. I
046mean, we do have some other financial things that we have to figure out. Um, they don't have to be done for the day of, right? We can pay in advance for those things like Oh, I gota um candy for the parade, but we can't buy it yet, but we can just buy it and be done. You know, the little things. I gota um but yeah, that that stuff the big things are all all done there. So, I guess just to reiterate, um, next week, Monday, 6:30, and that we still really need volunteers, the help of the community. They seem to be in short supply everywhere you go. Absolutely. So, everybody get people to step up. I'm volunteering. My kids are volunteering. It's the last one. Come on, everybody. You can. You can do it. You
047can do it. Come on. Just even if it's two hours, two hours. Give these ladies a bathroom break. Yeah. I'll be walking the neighborhood asking all my neighbors. Yes. Um so I hope to not doing it again. Right. And I noticed your Strawberry Festival t-shirt and I I appreciate that dearly. Um so I will say there is a sign up. It is on our Facebook page. Okay. If um you know anybody does not use Facebook, they can reach out to me. Um we'll get you. They can contact me if they don't have your number. 248. No, I've got a unless somebody else needs it. Yeah. So, it it can be posted on the board if we want to put it out there. But again, showing up to the Monday meeting if if somebody's watching um
048OCTV and they they don't have Facebook, but if they want to come next week to the Monday meeting 6:30, you know, we are taking them however we can get them. But I do I'll post something on the community board out front that just last push for volunteers for strawberry festival. If they can sign up though, it is helpful. Um, Holly, who's not here right now, she's going to help organize that. And it's just easier than us trying to write your names and find everyone's phone number, write it down for them. That way, she can send out an email and everybody that was on it, we know we don't miss them with that communication. But we'll do our best to fill in the verbal. Yeah. Last year, I think we were just grabbing them just like
049Yes. But there was more to grab. Yeah. This year, um, our meetings, I think we've had maximum two people. So, That's it. So, it's excellent. Yeah, it's been a struggle. So, that's um all that I have to report for today. Thank you, ladies. Thanks for your great report and all your hard work, right? The hard work. Yeah. For for all the years that you've done it. It's never easy. Okay. On to the cable commission. They'll meet this month or last month, but we will meet this month. It's every other month. Now, we we did sign a new agreement with them and get that off to them. So, that's in their hands now. So, there'll be a June there'll be a June meeting. Yeah, there will be. Okay. Anything from the decorating committee that you can
050report? Just that uh email you got from So, the funds have been approved. So, we're pretty much Yes. But on the email we got was the funds all the way through December. We're holding back on the rest of it. So, we'll be doing some more later as we go. We do like some of those closer time or August for those just cuz we felt like we had a lot to cover changes to what it's going to cost or something. She'll have a time to adjust to it. She won't have to come asking for more money, right? That would be a good way to do that. Yeah. Yeah. And she's pretty much right now. Let's see. She's got it nailed down. I don't think flags before Don goes. Oh, the flags are gone. Oh, they done?
051They were changed Friday morning. Where were you? Yeah, but I was everywhere. Parties everywhere. Like everywhere. Literally. All right. Good. Good. Where are you, Bill? Huh? Holy smokes. I'm too short. I don't look up there, Jennifer. We are going I knew you didn't help. We are going to leave the flags. Correct. Not take them down. Yeah. The question is is we love the United States so much that we're just going to fly the stars and stripes year round. It's just not. It's just it's only two steps. It was winter. Well, with the DPW guy retiring then unless you want to climb the pole. I Hey, I offered. He said I wasn't telling. Climbed a pole since I was a kid. I offered. We know that. Oh, Roger could. If you did want to change them
052one more time. I think we have some dirty old strawberry festival ones that maybe we could spray down. But the fire department is supposed to be putting up our banner for the last time. I will leave this weekend. So, if you wanted to ask for a favor, that might be a good time. Otherwise, I'm thinking I'm afraid to ask because they're done. It took a lot to get that. It was like a two-month process. Maybe longer. It was a Christmas banner. Christmas banner that was taken down. Yeah, we started in January with the request. A little late. It's all good. A little late. Yeah. Okay. So, nothing else to approve for decorating committee? No. No. No. Okay. We're good. So, on to the North Oakland Transit Authority. We spoke to a lot of it. What's
053going on tonight? I talked a lot about that. We did get another, excuse me, another citizen advocate. It's a non- voting member of the community and I I expect a couple more when we get the new municipalities. We'll have about four or four or five of them, I think. So, anything from the planning commission this evening? I was looking at the meetings that we've had. Um I I don't think we've had one, so we need to probably have one before we're all loaded up. I I don't have anything to put before the committee, but um otherwise we're going to be clumped at the end of the year. Yeah. So, we should just we could have a brief um meeting and then actually I could add to that. I spoke to Caitlyn Havin. Yeah. She's our
054um planner. So, we have somebody who like oversees what we do that we hire as like an outside contractor to help us to make sure that we are in compliance doing everything we're supposed to do on the planning commission. And she thought that it would be a really good idea if we get all the planning commissioners together and anybody else who's interested as far as um trustees go, you're you're welcome to come. You're welcome to come um just to do a training on maybe some zoning. Oh. and a few other things because we, you know, I I talked to her about how um we were talking about revamping with the master plan the couple things and how we were interested in those future use maps and how we were going to overlay them. There's some
055confusion with that. Um I thought maybe she could do that. So, we kind of spitballled a few ideas that we could do so we could have a meeting. We could discuss perhaps things that we all would like to gain from like a training session. And then I'd like to maybe set something up for her for July or August. Oh, okay. I mean, oh, maybe August because we're going to meet in July. I would like to attend that. Okay. Absolutely. I'll make sure I send out. So, should we cancel a June and just plan on July? Um, or should we have the June and August? I feel like we should have the June. Okay. Do we know if Doug's around? They're here right now. Okay. We do it. Let's do a June. June meeting is on
056to to get we need four a year and if we don't do them all at once then nobody's around to do the four and then we're not technically legal. So let's do the June. Um I also have the adoption of the master plan for Elmont which I have not gone through because it's wonderful reading. Okay. But we can I guess actually I'd like to look at it because she's the the planner for Elmont isn't she? Yes she was. Wasn't she? Mhm. So I'd be curious kind of This is all on Township. So Okay. Yeah. We'll take maybe take a peek at it. We can discuss that at the meeting, too. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. All right. That's it for planning. Dupan Trail Management Council. Uh we'll have a meeting. We actually have a meeting this month.
057We're by month now. We don't have a meeting every month. Mhm. So, and I can tell you that they have started a repaving project now on the trail today. That's what the tractors, the two tractors are for paving the trail. I think they're both box blades. And is that what all the dirt's for that's been sitting there for? Yes. Months. All of that gravel that's sitting there, all that finished gravel that's sitting there is that little tiny stuff that they put on top of everything. They're going from from uh Rochester Road to Lake George Road. Three miles. Okay. That's the only section that's I I guess there's a lot of water. I guess it's pretty low there. They have a lot of problems, too. They're keeping that together. I don't know anything about low. It
058is definitely low. My kids and I went walking over there and there was so much water. There was a swan that came out in the road and chased us away. It was scary. Well, that swan's always there. They are terrifying. Okay. He's He is frightening. They tell you not to feed them because that's Oh, feed them. I thought he was going to eat us. They They bite. Oh, yeah. They bite. Okay, moving on to the village park again. We'll talk about the park a little bit. We did have our spring cleanup last Saturday. I don't know how helpful I was. I kind of walk around, talk to everybody. I did pick up some stuff and put it in the front loader. So, I guess something. So, that's all done. But uh we tried to do
059some other things that we can't do because it's so wet in the area where the natural garden was is so now it's really tore up cuz Mike got the front motor stuck back there and we thought we saw some marks. Can Bill can your tiller handle this? I said no. No. We're going to have to fill before we do that. So we're going to go back in there with a little dryer and see if we can't get that back in order. Then I'll go in and till it up so we can start looking at putting perennials in there. Right. Block plants. Actually, we had a guy come from uh he's on the uh board of the library. He's teacher lives over on Hagarman Road. He came to this and he was quite knowledgeable and and
060nature natural stuff. He says it's kind of a hobby. He's a teacher by trade, but it's a hobby. Very cool. He really likes it. He talked to us about leaving it the way it is. We talked about all the water problems. You can't really get to the back. You can't get to the observation deck. It's It's useless back there. It's really flooded. So, what we looked at doing now is what we're going to look at doing is putting an elevated walkway in on on tears. So, and we're you'll you'll go to a spot. You don't have to put it all the way through. If you have a dry spot, stays dry. You can keep that. So, you stop there. It's like a boardwalk. It's elevated boardwalk. We'll have we'll have to put side rails on
061it. Keep it wide enough for wheelchairs. I don't want to see somebody going off into one of those vernal pools in a chair. That's not good. So we have So we're looking at how much it would cost to do all that. Does that fit into the park plan that was already developed? That well all that trailway is all back there but it's all underwater and it's But I mean does that fit what the trail plan was though or is it just going over it's just lifting up what's what was already going to be there? I can't answer to that. Okay. I'd have to go. I I don't know if there's anything that that talks to that that they wanted a natural gravel dirt kind of trail rather than I don't know that they would really
062care as long as it can be used. Same kind of thing they have up the seven ponds. Yeah. It's that kind of thing and and and somebody else there's another place park that they're doing that in down by the park or can the park um monies pay for that too? Well, we have to know how much do it cost. Okay. So, you'll put ties down and you put you know you put your your plants on top of that. Got it. So it so that it'll be available for year round use while you know summer time. Yeah. Even no matter how much water is in there, unless we have a giant flood, it's not going to work. So it'll be it'll be usable. Okay. And that's about all we have. We already talked about u I
063think we're at the end of this meeting. No correspondences. 7:53. We'll make a motion to close this meeting at 7:53 p.m. All in favor? I I John did support. Okay.